Handbook for K-8 Arts Integration Purposeful Planning Across the Curriculum

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Description: If you are a pre-service or a practicing teacher this is one book you will want in your library. This concise and practical, yet research-based, handbook will show you how to create and use standards-based art activities to teach across the contentMore...

If you are a pre-service or a practicing teacher this is one book you will want in your library. This concise and practical, yet research-based, handbook will show you how to create and use standards-based art activities to teach across the content areas. Written in an engaging and practical format complete with classroom vignettes and examples you will learn see what arts integration looks like in practice. Utlizing a constructive and reflective process (purposeful planning) this handbook empowers teachers to plan, teach, and evaluate thier own art-infused lessons linked to what their students will need to know within other content area instruction.

Nan L. McDonald, EdD, is Associate Professor of Music Education at San Diego State University School of Music and Dance and also teaches integrated arts to teachers and students in K-12 classrooms. She is the author of numerous articles in music, arts, and literacy journals as well as a program author for the Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett Music K-8 music text series Making Music. Dr. McDonald is the Director of Integrated Arts for the City Heights Educational Collaborative and is the recipient of the 2000 Outstanding University Music Educator Award from the California Association for Music Education and the 2003 Outstanding Faculty Award from San Diego State University College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts. Douglas Fisher, PhD, a former English teacher and language development specialist, is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at San Diego State University and the Director of Professional Development for the City Heights Educational Collaborative. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association Celebrate Literacy Award as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles and books on reading and literacy, integrated arts, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design.

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgments

Attitude Survey

What Are the Arts, Their Standards, and Their Impact on Student Learning?

Focus Activity

What Are the Arts?

Arts as Core Content

Who Will Teach the Arts?

Classroom Teachers: General Education With and Through the Arts

What Is Purposeful Planning With and Through the Arts?

Standards in the Arts

Suggestions for Standards-Based Arts Activities

Research on the Impact of Arts Activity on Student Learning

Why Use the Arts Within Content Area Instruction?

How Does Participation in Arts Activities Impact Student Achievement and Learning?

Learning Through the Arts: Student Academic and Social Development

Learning through Musical Activity

Learning through Visual Art Activity

Learning through Theatre/Drama

Learning through Dance/Movement

Learning through Integrated Arts Activities within Content Area Instruction

Learning through Arts-Rich School Environments

Arts Infusion in Action: Classroom Vignettes

In the Classroom: Integrating Language Arts/Literacy with the Arts: "Orchid Paragraphs"

Teacher Debriefing: Mrs. Law's Grade 2 Art and Literacy Lesson

Big ideas tied to content standards

Teaching strategies/sequences

Assessments/evaluations

Reflections on Mrs. Laws's lesson

Considerations in Mrs. Law's planning and teaching

In the Classroom: Integrating Social Studies/U.S. History with the Arts; "Let's Find Out: George Washington and the American Revolutionary War"

Big ideas tied to content standards

Teaching strategies/sequences

Assessments/evaluations

Reflections on Mr. Gonzalez's lesson

Conclusion

References

What Students Need to Know

Focus Activity

Food for Thought: What Your Students Need to Know

Hints in Reading Contributing Teacher Examples

K-8 Teacher Contributors: First Stages of Purposeful Planning

In the Classroom: Integrating Science and the Arts: "Lifecycle of Butterflies"

Big ideas tied to content standards

Purposeful planning goals

Discussion

In the Classroom: Integrating Math and the Arts: "Singing, Moving, Drawing on the Language of Math"

Big ideas tied to content standards

Purposeful planning goals

Discussion

In the Classroom: Integrating Social Studies (Geography), and the Arts: "Desert Habitat Art"

Big ideas tied to content standards

Purposeful planning goals

Discussion

In the Classroom: Integrating Social Studies (History/Geography), Math, and the Arts: "Exploration/Colonization"

Big ideas tied to content standards

Purposeful planning goals

Discussion

In the Classroom: Integrating Social Studies/History and the Arts: "Jamestown in 1607"

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